Cyberpunk Movies

In the year 2084, society is slowly being crushed into conformity by an all-powerful computer. But one man is surprisingly impervious to the malevolent machine’s relentless conditioning. How is this possible? Perhaps, in this dystopian future, Ignorance really is Strength.

At night, the Montreal skyline glitters with hundreds of corporate logos, a vast sea of holographic lights and neon that paints the sky with tumultuous colors. But below the hollow promises of billboards and corporate iconography, a shadow world operates on a rule as primal as life itself: survive at all cost.

Featuring a common element in sci-fi, which approaches the question of a soul within a robotic being - RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human - named Patrick. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.

Set in 2053, Arlo: The Assassin is an 80's style, lo-fi, cyberpunk action short where the streets are rough and the stakes are high. Arlo has been given his latest mark, The Grinning Girl - and she's not going down without a fight.

In the future, people are living in a society that is watched by the SKY-EYE system. An underground organization called FATE had emerged by that time. FATE plan to destroy SKY-EYE system and lets people know the truth.

Two thieves, Avery and Eli, find themselves thrown together by chance. Eli believes Avery has secreted away the documents that both were trying to steal and now having gotten the upper hand, he interrogates her for answers.

The story revolves around a young android girl who searches for scrap metal on a junkyard. She sells the scrap to a vendor and goes by her daily routine, intimidated, frightened and confused by the outside world. She is baffled by the lethargic state of all the people around her and at the same time feels worthless. She considers this feeling to be a dysfunction and tries to repair herself and her inner workings, partially with the modules she finds at the junkyard.

Cyberpunk is a 1990 documentary that explores the world (and term) that William Gibson invented with his book Neuromancer. The bulk of the documentary consists of interviews with Gibson, Jaron Lanier, Timothy Leary and Michael Synergy. A few industrial bands have their music featured as well.

After the robots declare their independence from humans and win equal rights, it becomes illegal for a human to own any piece of computer equipment. Cyborgs must waste their precious time hunting down the guilty.

In the 22nd century mankind may be technologically advanced, but there are still some problems that can only be fixed by a couple of women who won't back down from a fight! These are the adventures of Kei and Yuri, two official Trouble Consultants for the World Welfare Works Association who use their brains, brawn, and looks to solve any problem. They call themselves the "Lovely Angels," but because their solutions often result in chaos and mass destruction, the rest of the universe has dubbed them the "Dirty Pair"!

Having been called in to investigate a case involving a girl named Missinie, Kei and Yuri are on the trail of a new case involving a young girl named Missinie, but upon their arrival to the planet Ookbar they find their contact murdered. AJ Development wants to put a stop to the investigation and orders them off of the planet - however, they are pointed in the direction of the forest of Nolandia. Crash landing at their destination, the dynamic duo discovers illusions and strange creatures that shouldn’t exist. Now, Kei and Yuri must track down Missinie and get to the bottom of the mystery.

Universal flight 005 has exploded mid-flight, killing three hundred passengers; but when no one steps forward to file an insurance claim, the 3WA is called upon to investigate - and Kei and Yuri get assigned to the case! Oddly enough, they are also assigned a second case, this one involving a missing scientist. Why did the central computer assign them both of these cases? Could they possibly be connected? The Dirty Pair don't know, but they are sure going to find out - if they can avoid everyone that is trying to kill them!

In the near future, robotic limbs have become more powerful and versatile than the human body, granting their users incredible new powers. A new law is passed regulating the use of the dangerous technology, causing a leading prosthetics distributor to recall its products. An employee and a police officer go door-to-door collecting the bionic limbs, but not everyone will hand over their arms willingly.

Welcome to 2035 Los Angeles, a place where climate change and income inequality force millions to live on the fringe, where gangs battle to control the latest cybernetic implants, and once-respectable doctors hunt to supply the black market for human organs...

A short, character driven, sci-fi film about an exile called Adam. After machines became the sole workforce for the industry, The lower classes were deemed surplus to requirements and banished from the utopian cities and left to starve. The story focuses on Adam, a man trapped in the slums of this dark future. As the rebels plot against the elite known as The Order, Adam is left stuck in the middle accompanied by his only companion, a robotic helper called iO. After discovering that the Earth will soon be destroyed by a cosmic natural disaster, Adam has to find a way off the planet.

This is the graduation film by Eugen Baitinger and Falk Boje made in 2010. The film is set in the not too distant future and tells the story of John Geiger, a private detective, and Sam, a hacker. Together they are going on a quest that guides them into the depths of cyberspace, to find the Turingcode of an A.I.

In this 1980s-style cyberpunk noir, a drug-addicted hitman is plagued by memories of his long-dead lover. When an old employer tracks him down for one last mission, he refuses ... until he learns that his payment will be in the form of his lover, brought back to life through cloning and cybernetics.

Living within a crumbling city rife with disease are Jackson and Acacia. Every day poses a struggle as Jackson attempts to prevent Acacia from succumbing to an illness. Unfortunately, the only cure lies deep within Greenside, a heavily fortified biodome guarded by the Zero Troopers, where the city's privileged and powerful live a safe and comfortable life...

Hellevator takes place in a non-specific dystopic near future, where a colony of people have long ago decided to move underground. While some aspects of life clearly involve advanced technologies, there is a strong analog, mechanistic component to society.

In a close future, a private company developed a technology aimed at boosting our brain capacity. But it requires from its clients to store their memory data on one single server. In this highly controlled world, a young woman has the power to change things.

The story takes place in a futuristic world, a surveillance society, where everyone has been microchipped for the better organization and function of the city. Those who resist to be registered soon find themselves isolated from the city life since its illegal not to have a code on you.

Based on the video game Deus Ex Human Revolution, the film dives into the world of Adam Jensen, a Sarif industries' security consultant that gets augmented after an incident that almost took his life away. Although the film doesn't follow the narrative of the game exactly, it remains true to the theme while focusing on the relationship between Adam Jensen, and his ex girlfriend Megan Reed, a scientist hand picked by Serif Industries to head Cybernetic Augmentations.

Ellie is terminal. Wren is broke and struggling, but would do anything to keep her alive. With only a gun and his love, can he do what it takes to save her life? Into Dusk is a proof of concept scene for a planned feature film. It was created by people who love cyberpunk.

In a near future, man will have given birth to machines that are able to rewrite their codes, to improve themselves, and, why not, to dispense with them. This idea sounded a little bit distant to some critic voices, so an experiment was to be done: keep the AI sealed in a box from which it could not get out except by one mean: convincing a human guardian to let it out.

LOST BOY is an ambitious sci-fi concept heavily influenced by the American action classics and Japanese samurai films. It instantly captures viewers with its highly visual and unparalleled sci-fi world.

Set in Los Angeles City, 2057, an outlaw is captured and sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment on the Lunar penitentiaries. To reunite with his family, he must become the first convict to escape the corrupt system and return to Earth.

The film starts out with Maya, decked-out in some near-future laser-tag gear, stalking a structure with some guards. She manages to take out one guard, but winds up getting shot dead, only to awaken back in reality... or what we think is reality. From there, we witness Maya "reawakening" with different outcomes, like a dream within a dream.

After a serious accident, a man is introduced to a designer street drug promising to restore his ravaged body. Desperate to mend himself, he becomes consumed by the drug - only to discover it is threatening his humanity.

In the near future, nanotechnology administered into the bloodstream can sync with computer apps to augment the human genome. A new law mandating and regulating this once elective procedure meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of “Nano version 2.0.”

When Nora, a service android, is given the rare opportunity to leave her ship to go on a mission vital to the humans continuation, she believes her dream of freedom will be fulfilled. When she finds herself abandoned on a desolate planet her illusions are shattered, and she is left to build a new future for her and her own species.

Criminals of the universe beware – the Dirty Pair are back in action! It doesn't matter if you're the warden of an infamous prison, a robot that's literally armed to the teeth, or a snotty little kid who thought it'd be fun to hijack mankind's biggest space cannon. If Kei and Yuri get orders to bring you in, then these two Lovely Angels will use any combination of beauty, brains, and brute force to bring you to justice!

Prime is a great example of a project that could have never existed had it not been for the incredibly robust Source Engine community. This cyberpunk short film was created by combining the assets from different games as well as community created models. The free Source Engine mod Neotokyo was used for the environment and background models and the characters were converted from other games or created out-right by highly skilled members of the community.

Year 2086. Kate Sorin never imagined how volunteering herself as "base citizen" for Project Shell would determine her fate. The UNCORP claimed that the creation of the cyber-clones would be the bridge to a free and equal society, without thinking that their human nature would fight against the role they were created for: to be slaves.

Set within a dystopian world that is a collision between technology and humanity, "Reboot" touches upon many of the current social and political concerns that arise from becoming more and more intertwined with the virtual.
In contemporary Los Angeles, a young female hacker (Stat) awakens from unconsciousness to find an iPhone glued to her hand and a mysterious countdown ticking away on the display. Suffering from head trauma, and with little recollection of who she is or what is happening, Stat races against time to figure out what the code means, and what unknown event the pending zero-hour will bring.

A short animatic film set in a near future cyberpunk world. It follows the story of a special-forces police unit that is tasked to eliminate rogue androids. The Captain of this unit is giving a report on the last mission of his squad, which is known to have had a fatal end.

Residenz is a scifi-based online Web Series produced by Red Harvest Pictures. A unique and imaginative version of a post apocalyptic world situated in an unknown time and space, where a new breed of humans is controlled by an artificial intelligence.

Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce - robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.

ROSE is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rose, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind's last attempt to restore the earth's ecosystem. Rose will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.

Sight envisions a future where people have retinal implants that enable them to conveniently digitize what they see. This charming short from Eran May-Raz and Daniel Lazo, explicitly shows how the power of such technology could influence our social lives.

In the near-future only one man stands between humanity and a new insidious invader: Snatchers. They kill and take the place of members of society... And the longer they get away with it - the better they get at it. They are nearly impossible to differentiate from normal humans... And with 6 more months... It will be IMPOSSIBLE to stop them.

In the future, an Ex-Soldier is placed in virtual exercises to cure his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the simulations, he sees glimpses of a mysterious girl, presumably someone from his past. When a Stranger appears in his facility offering answers, the Soldier finds himself once again asked to kill, this time for her...

Every 15 seconds, a computer, network, or mobile device is hacked by cyber-terrorists. To combat this problem, Syntek Industries has manufactured data couriers designed from advanced machine robotics. These couriers are known as SYNCS. Syncs are programmed to securely deliver data packages without interruption.

The year is 2045 and "tek," a highly addictive computer-based reality drug takes the users of the drug into a fantasy world. Jake Cardigan, a cop who was jailed on trumped charges, is hired by the mysterious Walter Bascom to fight the drug. Jake's first partner was Sid Gomez who was replaced by sexy Sam Houston; Nika is a computer wiz who works for Bascom; Cowgirl and Spaz are two "cyberpunks"; and Shelley Grout is a government agent trying to stop Jake.

By 2085, ocean levels have risen to a point that entire coastal cities and islands have been submerged. On an island megalopolis, a genetic virus and cybernetic beings are threatening the survival of its population. Oz, a health services employee, must find a way to survive amidst the swelling chaos.

Tesseract is the story of a man on the run from his past, in a world where no one forgets. 2152, technology has merged with mankind at an exponential rate changing the way we see and interact with the world. The more integrated the technology the more it is used as a form of control which governments, corporations and crime syndicates take advantage of to its fullest.

An excellent rundown on the evolution of hackers from "damn kids" to leading computer professionals. it goes into detail about the reality of computer crime and the fact that hackers and security experts have to come together to trade knowledge.

A 2003 documentary study of mainstream Cyberpunk films of the 1980s created by director Andrew J. Holden. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye to describe the common, repeating stories in Western culture, and how Cyberpunk can be defined and understood according to that analysis, with a focus toward American film industry portrayal of race, gender, and government.

In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a beautiful but fragile veneer...

Drawing influence from cyberpunk sub-culture and set in an industrial, minimalist future, the reclusive Trenton routinely relies on an underground drug in order to simulate life experiences. However, the effects aren't always reliable nor predictable.

In 2078 something had stopped the motor of the world. Decades later, civilization is still recovering from the global network crash. In this post- dystopian age, remnants of the old technologies remain, including cyborgs and man-machine interfaces. To regulate the disaffected remnants - colloquially known as 'Burnouts' - the Unified Cybernetics Foundation is formed to deal with post-human law enforcement. It is now 2106, one hundred years in the present. When two Toronto police detectives are caught in the middle of a specific multiple murder case involving Burnouts, UCF sends one of their Marshals to assist. And when the Foundation gets involved, nothing is ever simple.

Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe hallucinations. (Includes: Mesopotamian bees, souls living inside weapons, the land of the dead in the Moon, Cain, the Trinity site, the tower of Babel, and a planet TV transmitting the dead of the future inside the Garden of Eden Cave which are giant bees, a Supranormal Film Society trying to capture the dead on film in the 1920's, the letter X, missiles turning into flying saucers, a beekeeper who is murdered by his own bees, and the cities of the dead)

A young woman attempts to sabotage a corporation via her techno-wizardry skills. On the run from the law enforcement, the audience follows the hacker hoping for her to emerge victorious over the corporate overlords that loom over the sprawl.